WashU Nephrology ASN Kidney Week 2026 Calendar

ASN Kidney Week returns October 21-25, 2026, in Denver, Colorado.

View the program information for Early Programs (Wednesday, Oct 21) and the Annual Meeting (Thursday – Sun, Oct 22-25).
Browse or download the Kidney Week 2025 Abstracts.

WashU Nephrology will once again have a strong presence at Kidney Week, with faculty, fellows, and staff contributing through presentations, guiding sessions, and more.

See our lineup of WashU Nephrology contributors below.

Unless stated otherwise, all events will be held at the Colorado Convention Center.
Poster sessions will be held in Exhibit Hall A of the Convention Center; 10:00AM -12:00PM
All times are listed in Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

Wednesday
Oct 21 – Early Program

Anuja Java, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System
@anuja_java

Speaker: “Thrombotic Microangiopathy in the Cancer Patient: Decoding the Role of Complement Regulation and Inhibition”

Wed Oct 21, 2026
1:00 PM-1:30 PM
Location: Mile High Ballroom 1D

Session: Onconephrology in 2026: New Therapies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Panelist: “Case-Based Debates in Onco-Nephrology: To Transplant or not to Transplant? Selection and Evaluation of Patients with Solid and Hematologic Cancers for Kidney Transplantation“

Wed Oct 21, 2026
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Mile High Ballroom 1D

Session: Onconephrology in 2026: New Therapies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, SOAR internship program

Speaker: “Kidney Transplant Onconephrology: Immunotherapies, Engineered Cellular Therapies, and Management of Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder“

Wed Oct 21, 2026
10:30 AM-11:00 AM
Location: Mile High Ballroom 1D

Session: Onconephrology in 2026: New Therapies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Panelist: “Case-Based Debates in Onco-Nephrology: To Transplant or not to Transplant? Selection and Evaluation of Patients with Solid and Hematologic Cancers for Kidney Transplantation“

Wed Oct 21, 2026
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Location: Mile High Ballroom 1D

Session: Onconephrology in 2026: New Therapies, Opportunities, and Challenges

Thursday
Oct 22, 2026

Poornima Dilhani Ekanayake, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Scholar Herrlich Lab

Poster: “Kidney-Derived Circulating Osteopontin Drives Hippocampal Neuroinflammation and Neurologic Dysfunction in AKI Independent of Uremia but with Age-Dependent Vulnerability“

#TH-PO0675

Chenjian Gu, PhD

Ben J. Lipps Research Fellow
Y. Maggie Chen Lab

Poster: “MANF Clears Mutant Uromodulin in Human Kidney Organoids of Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease“

#TH-PO0132

Rupal Ojha, PhD

Postdoc Research Associate
Herrlich Lab
@OjhaRupal

Poster: “Interorgan Communication Drives Remote Organ Inflammation And Dysfunction: Circulating osteopontin fragments mediate cardiac dysfunction after AKI“

#TH-PO0802

Chengqing Qu

Doctoral Student
Miner Lab

Poster: “Characterization of Synaptopodin “Ultra Long” (Synpo-UL): A Novel Isoform in Podocytes“

#TH-PO0310

Friday
Oct 23, 2026

Safaa Hammoud, PhD

Postdoc Research Associate Gewin Laboratory
@safaahammoud

Poster: “Inhibition of Fatty Acid Metabolism Protects Against AKI“

#FR-PO0381

Andreas Herrlich, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine
Director, Translational Medicine Nephrology
Herrlich Lab
@HerrlichLab

Speaker: “Circulating Osteopontin Drives Remote Organ Complications After AKI“

Fri Oct 23, 2026
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Location: Four Seasons Ballroom 2

Session: Beyond the Silos: Mechanisms of Interorgan Crosstalk in Kidney Health and Diseases

Anuja Java, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Kidney Transplant Clinic at Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System
@anuja_java

Speaker: “Complement-Mediated Kidney Diseases and Transplantation”

Fri Oct 23, 2026
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Location: Room 401

Session: Navigating Complex Genomic Challenges in Kidney Transplantation, Including the Barbara T. Murphy, MB BAO BCh, Endowed Lectureship

Muhammad Ulusyar Khan, MBBS

WashU Transplant Nephrology Research Fellow

Poster: “Coexistence of Acute Cellular Allograft Rejection and Extrarenal Recurrence of p-ANCA Vasculitis After Kidney Transplantation“

#FR-PO1153

Naoka Murakami, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, SOAR internship program

Moderator

Session: The ABC’s of Thrombotic Microangiopathy

Fri Oct 23, 2026
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Location: Mile High Ballroom 2

Yasuhiro Oda, MD, PhD

Postdoc Research Scholar
Humphpreys Lab

Top Trainee Poster: “Single-nucleus long-read RNA sequencing unravels isoform-level regulation of gene expression in normal and acutely injured proximal tubule cells“

*This abstract is selected for presentation in the Top Trainee Posters Session
Fri Oct 23, 2026
1:00PM-2:00PM
Futures Theater, Exhibit Hall.

#FR-PO0342

Katerina Trachtova

PhD student; Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences: Computational & Systems Biology

Former DCBRM Postbaccalaureate Researcher in the Sanjay Jain Lab

Poster: “Spatiotemporally Resolved Gene Regulatory Networks Drive Postnatal Human Kidney Maturation“

#FR-PO0921

Saturday
Oct 24, 2026

Hiroyuki Arai, MD, PhD

Postdoc Research Associate Murakami Lab

Poster: “Integrated Spatial and Single-Cell Transcriptomics of Human Kidney Biopsies Reveals Distinct Immune Architecture in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Acute Interstitial Nephritis“

#SA-PO1228

*Hiroyuki Arai was selected to receive funding from the ASN Karen L. Campbell PhD Travel Support Program for Fellows. He will serve as a co-mentor to a group of students or residents onsite at ASN Kidney Week.